Heat Waves
Below is not a song review, nor a dnf fanfiction. Itâs simply thoughts I have whenever I listen to Heat Waves by Glass Animals. In fact, I have been looping this song for about 3 months, around 2 hours a day. I guess Iâm getting addicted, but for a specific reason.
Sometimes, all I think about is you Late nights in the middle of June
W lives in my head rent free. For 2 whole years I have thought about him daily, and I have gotten used to it. When asked if I have stopped thinking of him, I could never give an actual answer. Everything just reminds me of him.
Heat waves been faking me out Can't make you happier now
Back when we were dating, we were not as happy as we thought we would be. We had fought a few times before we got together, and it made me even more insecure about our sudden relationship. I didnât believe that he loved me. I couldnât, not after watching him being blindly in love with a girl for 5 years. I went to the school counselor even more often than I used to due to all the emotions. Perhaps that gave him a lot of stress as he realized he just couldnât make me happy, when in reality all I needed was time.
Usually I put Something on TV So we never think About you and me
All this time, before or after breakup, we both tend to not talk about how we feel. For a few months after the breakup I was mad at him for being silent. After I had chosen to express my thoughts so to fix our relationship, he simply decided that breaking up with me would be the best choice without even telling me how he had been stressed the entire time.
Although we still chatted quite often after we broke up, we kept our feelings hidden from each other for a very long time and we would mostly just talk about school-based stuff or memes.
But today I see Our reflections Clearly in Hollywood Laying on the screen
Now and then we would tell each other our thoughts on the breakup, but itâs always bits and pieces. It was until last December, a year since he asked me to be his girlfriend, that we actually opened up to each other.
You just need a better life than this You need something I can never give Fake water all across the road It's gone now the night has come but
Despite having dated two girls before, W has always been a lone wolf. He knew exactly what to do in a relationship -- he just didnât want to. He doesnât want a relationship with anyone at all. He knew I needed him as my boyfriend, but he just couldnât. So he decided he must leave me.
You can't fight it You can't breathe
Thereâs this thing between us about the sea:
Two years ago, we went to the seaside and talked for hours. He told me how he once jumped off a yacht. âYou can see the sunlight shining on the surface as youâre sinking,â he told me, âitâs like drowning, just that the water pushes you up again.â
Sometimes I imagine my love for him as drowning. But instead of floating back up, I just sink even deeper.
You say something so loving but Now I've got to let you go You'll be better off in someone new I don't wanna be alone You know it hurts me too
âI wasnât as happy as you thought I was,â he told me last December. âAs selfish as it sounds, I must admit -- I did think I would be happier after breaking up with you. But I wasnât. The six months after the breakup sucked. It was until summer that I suddenly thought to myself, âjust âcause Iâm not happy doesnât necessarily mean that Iâm having a bad time.ââ
âGreat, now Iâm gonna be sad again after telling you everything.â
You look so broken when you cry
I called him the second I saw the breakup text.
I was hurt, yet more surprised. My brain couldnât process as I listened to him talk, and I couldnât feel the ache in my heart. Everything was too painful for me that my mind went blank. It was until he ended the call that I finally realized he was breaking up with me.
I couldnât remember what we talked about in that hour, my brain likes deleting memories that I canât bear.
All I could remember was hearing his voice cracked as he held back his tears.
One more and then I'll say goodbye
On New Yearâs Eve, my emotions took over. My tears wouldnât stop, and I couldnât stop thinking about W. So I called him. I didnât think it through -- I couldnât think. I just wanted to spend the first second of 2021 with him.
But after ending the call, all I could think of was this line.
âOne more,â I told myself, âone more and then Iâll say goodbye.â
I just wonder what you're dreaming of When you sleep and smile so comfortable
Sometimes when Iâm having troubles falling asleep, I imagine him sleeping soundly on his bed. We used to chat for hours when we both have insomnia. I would listen to him vent, and I would wish that he could stop being sad one day, that I would never hear him cry and suffer. I would wish to trade my happiness with his sadness.
Well, you can say that my wish did come true.
I just wish that I could give you that That look that's perfectly unsad
I know he will never be happy if heâs with me. I canât give him the happiness he wants. Heâll be better off without me, I believe. I believe Iâm not the one for him. I imagine seeing him marrying the girl heâll love, him grinning and his face lighten up with joy. I want him to be happy, and thatâs all that matters to me















